Announcements

With funds from the Equal Opportunity Officer and as a measure to promote equality, it is now possible for female doctoral scholarship holder to receive an additional annual reimbursement of up to 300 euros for research costs.

You can find all the necessary information and the documents to be submitted on the website of the Equal Opportunity Officer.

If you have any questions, please contact the Equal Opportunity and Family Office at gleichstellungsbuero@uni-erfurt.de.

From the budget for gender equality measures of the Equal Opportunity Officer, female doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers, who are employees of the University of Erfurt can now apply for research grants, which can be used among others for conference travel, researcher funds, data access, additional equipment and more.

Doctoral candidates can apply for support up to 300 euros and postdoctoral candidates for support up to 500 euros.

Informal applications with a statement of expenses are accepted via gleichstellungsbuero@uni-erfurt.de.

When applying for travel grants for conference travel, the certificate of acceptance of one's own active conference contribution must also be attached to the application. Further information can be found on the website of the Equal Opportunity Officer.

In 2025, the University of Erfurt will once again honour excellent dissertations by young academics with the Christoph Martin Wieland Doctoral Prize. The prize recognises outstanding work supervised and submitted at the university. In addition to a main prize of 3,000 euros, all other nominated theses receive 500 euros each. The prize money is to be used for the personal research of the prizewinners.

The nominated dissertations must be characterised by

• scientific originality,
• high quality in execution and presentation
• innovative methodological approaches,
• knowledge gain for the respective subject area and
• relevance to current research.

Theses completed between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2024 as decided by the Doctoral Committee may be submitted.

Nomination proposals can be submitted by any supervisor of a dissertation to the Dean's Office of the respective faculty or the Directorate of the Max Weber Kolleg. The internal deadline for submission within the faculty or college is set and announced by the institutions themselves.

The following documents must be submitted to the Dean's Office or Directorate with the nomination:

• the completed nomination form (available in German only)
• an electronic version of the proposed thesis,
• a generally understandable summary of the most important results of the dissertation, to be written by the nominee,
• the reviews of the dissertation,
• a tabular curriculum vitae of the nominee with contact details, references to awards, scholarships, stays abroad, publications, etc,
• the data privacy statement (available in German only) together with the doctoral candidate's declaration of consent that they are getting nominated.

The faculties and the Max Weber Kolleg must propose their respective nominations to the Christoph Martin Wieland Graduate Forum by 7 February 2025 at the latest.

You can find more information about the doctoral award on the event page. Here you will be informed promptly about the award ceremony in the summer semester 2025.

If you have any questions, please contact the Graduate Services at nachwuchsfoerderung@uni-erfurt.de